At FedSavvy Strategies, we believe collaboration is essential to success in the federal market. Our Partners page showcases the trusted organizations, subject matter experts (SMEs), and collaborators who help us deliver specialized work for deeper insights, smarter strategies, and greater impact for our clients.
Whether you’re a prospective partner exploring ways to work together or a client looking to understand the extended “bench” behind our intelligence work capabilities—this page is your resource.
Entellect
Value Proposition:
Entellect is a boutique consulting firm laser-focused on helping government contractors grow smart in a fiercely competitive landscape. They provide full-lifecycle support across business development, capture strategy, proposal development, strategic pricing, and technical recruiting—empowering clients to win more, scale faster, and operate with confidence. Their hands-on team brings deep GovCon expertise, proven tools, and executive-level insight to every engagement.
Core Services:
- Business Development and Capture Strategy
- Full Proposal Development and Management (Shipley-based)
- Rapid Response Solutions for Quick-Turn Bids and Task Orders
- Price to Win and Strategic Pricing Support
- Technical Recruiting and Staffing for C-Suite, Cleared, and Specialized Roles
Why Them
We share common values by being ruthlessly pragmatic in our approaches. They are superbly led by Tan Wilson. Tan is incredibly creative and knowledgeable about capture strategy and crafting winning solutions. Our collaborations are wonderful because of our combined experience and no nonsense approaches to winning.
First Arrow Executive Search
Value Proposition:
First Arrow Executive Search is a boutique retained search firm focused on the federal and aerospace & defense sector. Their process combines macro and microscopic understanding of client culture and needs, efficient candidate discovery, and thorough pre/post-screening. With deep industry relationships and direct sourcing methods, they deliver talent that aligns on expertise, motivation, and cultural fit.
Core Services:
- Retained Executive Search
- Board Searches
- Compensation Benchmarking
- Market Competitive Intelligence
- Succession Planning
Why Them
This is a remarkably sophisticated business when it comes to executive search. Their incredibly thoughtful process of finding and placing the right candidate has always impressed us. Led by GOVCON industry insider Shunil Joseph, we've always known First Arrow to be resourceful and thoughtful in finding a "purple squirrel" to have enormous impact on a business.
SMG Consulting Services LLC
Value Proposition:
Stephanie Gonzales is a proven growth executive with technical
and business development skills. This allows her to evaluate
pursuits, develop capture plans, and coordinate comprehensive
solutions with solution architects and technical staff.
Stephanie has over 35 years of technical and business
development experience across Federal DoD, Intel, and
Civilian customers.
Core Services:
- Strategic consultation to develop an executable pipeline or evaluate potential pursuits.
- GSA expertise including “FEDSIM”, ASTRO, OASIS, Alliant 2, and GSA schedule with over $2B of GSA wins.
- Pursuit/Proposal support including competitive analysis, capture support, win strategy, teaming analysis, proposal development, price strategy and color reviews.
- Keep It Sold services to analyze upcoming recompetes from a competitors perspective to shore up weaknesses.
- Voice of the Customer services for 3rd party non-biased assessments of customer satisfaction.
Why Them
Led by Stephanie Gonzales, their expertise and experience with all things GSA AAS (FEDSIM) is an incredibly valuable resource. GSA AAS contracting opportunities are never simple and they can be incredibly lucrative. Stephanie's insider level knowledge adds great depth to any related capture and even contract execution.
Solutioneering
Value Proposition:
In competitive government procurements, the determination of whether your company will win or lose is made before proposal writing even starts. Solutioneering helps companies perform the crucial upfront strategic thinking needed for success. They deliver authentic intelligence to shape winning strategies and scorable strengths tailored to evaluation criteria—helping your company answer the most important question: “Why your company?”
Core Services:
- Training on Solution Engineering Framework™
- Embedded consulting to apply the framework early in the pursuit to shape strategy before proposal writing begins
- Rapid Response Solutions for Quick-Turn Bids and Task Orders
- SET™ – the Solution Engineering Tool™ is a software automation of the framework, enabling revenue growth teams to perform strategic analysis and win more.
Why Them
Led by Peter Lierni, this incredibly thoughtful and thorough "engineer of solution development" is the kind of operator you want (and need) to keep your solution development on track. Some will avoid a rigorous process at their own peril. Peter is akin to a personal trainer to your solution development fitness goals. His system empowers you to be self sufficient by showing you a process to develop a winning solution.
The Peerless Group
Value Proposition:
The Peerless Group helps organizations capture more government contracts. We help increase win rates with effective capture management, and sharpen marketing, proposal, and business development for key opportunities.
Core Services:
- Capture Management
- Business Development
- Subject Matter Expertise
- Writing
- Visual Design
- Proposal Support
Why Them
We have a long history of working with Peerless Group's fearless leader, Jennifer Namvar. She's an incredibly capable capture executive with a strong team behind her to run captures and to add select domain expertise in space and DoD environments. We work very well together on strategically critical captures.
